Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica are happy to make external viewfinders that they can sell at additional cost to the bodies but modifying the frameline sets in the camera, with assoiated increased manufacturing costs doesn't seem to please them. I don't want an external finder and I doubt Leica are going to make a lens for thirty year old CLs and CLEs or (I imagine this would give Leica a shudder) the Cosina R3A/M. But I also accept that I can't expect Leica to make everything that I think I want. Marty On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> A new 40 would be very nice. ?Leica they seem reluctant to have >> different finder frameline sets or magnifications except with the a la >> carte price premium, so I don't think a 40 seems likely. ?But it would >> be nice, Leica, if you're listening... >> >> Marty > > Having come out with an 18 and the tri elmar wide maybe they are liking > making viewfinders now and selling them. I think making those two optics > may > have loosened them up a bit on that end. > > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >